Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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My trade and art is to live.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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